The Haitians :: a decolonial history /

"In this sweeping history, leading Haitian intellectual Jean Casimir argues that the story of Haiti should not begin with the usual image of Saint-Domingue as the richest colony of the eighteenth century. Rather, it begins with a reconstruction of how individuals from Africa, in the midst of th...

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1. Verfasser: Casimir, Jean (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Dubois, Laurent, 1971- (ÜbersetzerIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2020].
Schriftenreihe:Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução.
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Zusammenfassung:"In this sweeping history, leading Haitian intellectual Jean Casimir argues that the story of Haiti should not begin with the usual image of Saint-Domingue as the richest colony of the eighteenth century. Rather, it begins with a reconstruction of how individuals from Africa, in the midst of the golden age of imperialism, created a sovereign society based on political imagination and a radical rejection of the colonial order, persisting even through the U.S. occupation in 1915"--
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xxix, 419 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781469660509
1469660504
9781469660493
1469660490